EAST HILL EQUITY - Key Persons

Christian Zeuchner

Job Titles:
  • Partner
  • Partner, Stockholm
Christian has worked with investments in different roles for over 20 years, always with a focus on B2B tech companies. He founded East Hill Equity in 2016 together with Daniel Riazzoli and Lars-Olof Gustavsson. Before founding East Hill Equity, Christian worked at Fouriertransform. Prior to that, he has been working within the automotive industry and tech-enabled B2B sector, both as line manager (GM) and as a management consultant (Roland Berger, Arthur D. Little and Ricardo) in Europe, Asia and the US.

Cornelia Bjellerup

Job Titles:
  • Investment Manager
  • Investment Manager, Stockholm
Cornelia has seven years of experience from working with investment banking, both with M&A and IPOs across a broad range of sectors. Prior to joining East Hill Equity, Cornelia has held different positions at KPMG, Danske Bank and most recently at J.P. Morgan. Cornelia has a Master of Laws and a Bachelor in Accounting and Finance from Uppsala University.

Daniel Riazzoli

Job Titles:
  • Partner
  • Partner, Stockholm
Daniel has worked with investments for over 15 years. Before founding East Hill Equity in 2016 together with Christian Zeuchner and Lars-Olof Gustavsson, he focused on growth and venture capital investments within the tech-enabled B2B space. Prior to founding East Hill Equity, Daniel has worked at Fouriertransform, FSN Capital and at the British private equity company 3i. He has also worked as a management consultant at McKinsey & Co. Daniel has a Master of Science degree in Industrial Engineering and Management from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.

Fredrik Eiserman

Job Titles:
  • Investment Manager
  • Investment Manager, Stockholm
Fredrik joined East Hill Equity in 2023, previously working 3 years as a management consultant at Boston Consulting Group. At BCG, Fredrik was a core member of the Nordic Industrial Goods practice, focusing on Mobility, Automotive and Transportation sector. Prior to BCG, Fredrik worked as an FX Trader at Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken. Fredrik has a Master of Science degree in Industrial Engineering and Management from Chalmers University of Technology/Nanyang Technological University, complemented with bachelor studies in Economics at Gothenburg School of Business and Law.

Lars-Olof Gustavsson

Job Titles:
  • Senior Advisor
Lars-Olof is a pioneer within the Nordic venture capital industry and has been active in the industry for over 40 years. During the 1970s, he worked at Sveriges Investeringsbank as Executive Vice President and Chief Lending Officer and in 1975 he started a venture capital operation within the bank. In 1983, Lars-Olof founded the first privately owned venture capital firm in Sweden, Four Seasons Venture Capital AB. In 1985, he founded Norway's first privately owned venture capital firm, Four Seasons Venture AS. Lars-Olof has also been engaged by the Swedish Ministry of Finance as a director of e.g. the board in SJ AB and Stiftelsen Industrifonden.

Nicolas von Stackelberg

Job Titles:
  • Venture Partner
  • Venture Partner, Berlin
Nicolas has been running his own M&A-boutique since 2013, focusing on small to midcap M&A transactions as well as funding support for tech start-ups​. Nicolas has also worked with Equity research at Germany's oldest investment and private banking institution, Sal Oppenheim​. Prior to Sal Oppenheim, Nicolas worked in Investor Relations at Sema, LHS and in business development at Publicis Groupe​.

Ulf Järvenäs - CFO

Job Titles:
  • CFO
  • Partner
  • CFO, Stockholm
Ulf is a seasoned CFO in the venture capital business with experience from both private and state-financed funds and has been active in the venture capital space for 20 years plus. Ulf has extensive experience of supporting portfolio companies, feedback to fund-investors regarding development of the portfolio and financial matters for the fund itself. Ulf started his venture capital exposure at the VC fund HealthCap. After that Ulf joined Fouriertransform, a state-financed venture capital fund investing in the automotive and manufacturing industry, as CFO. After that, he worked as Financial Consultant with roles as interim CFO and Project Manager in various industries. In 2022, he joined East Hill Equity as CFO. Ulf has a degree in Business Administration from Uppsala University in Uppsala, Sweden.